"Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
— Eric Hughes (A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993)
#privacy #secrecy
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